"Holy crap are those good!"
I took concert piccies a couple of weeks ago, and got back the contacts and they blow, compared to those. For some reason the singer really liked them (can't figure out why), and 4x6 proofs will be back on Friday (she wanted me to order them - go figure).
But this isn't about me. It's about Tan. Wow!! Great work!!
cheers, frank
"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer
From: "David Madsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: Fairygirl's first attempt at concert pix... Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 15:36:14 -0700
Let me start by saying "holy crap those are good!". I have done a few concerts in my time, being a musician, and getting good photos in that kind of lighting is hard. You have done a fantastic job. I actually wouldn't have minded seeing a few with a dragged shutter to show even more movement. I am also impressed at the performance of the istD at 1600. I should be ordering mine next week and I can't wait to experiment.
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-----Original Message----- From: Tanya Mayer Photography [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 3:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fairygirl's first attempt at concert pix...
So I went to a concert last night with singer Shannon Noll (was runner up on
Australian Idol). BIIIIIIIIIG news in our sleep little country hicksville.
Over 5000 people attended the concert, that is like double the population of
my entire town!
Anyways, had some fun trying my hand at concert pix. Was extremely difficult though as all were handheld and I was in the middle of the mosh pit, so you can imagine the problems I faced!
And they kept spraying the damn crowd with water (it was BLOODY hot in that
there pit!), but I spent half the night trying to protect my camera from the
fire hose!
Anyways, all shots taken on the *ist D with Tamron 28-200mm f4-5.6 Asph lens
at between 135mm and 200mm. All handheld at f5.6 and usually around 1/8 and
sometimes up to 1/20 if I was lucky. All shot with NR on at ISO 1600.
Actually, come to think of it, I reckon I did pretty well to get even a few in focus with those settings. My arm muscles must be building up!
Word of advice - never try to take sharp pics in a mosh pit with a long zoom
lens. It ain't pretty lemme tell you! There will be quite a few drunken
concert goers with bumps on their drunken heads today as a result of them
jumping into my camera (I know, I know, it is a public liability nightmare,
but I figure they were mostly too drunk to remember and besides, it WAS a
mosh pit - most people EXPECT to get bashed on the head with something!
lol)... Anyways, boy did my reflexes get good last night as I tried to
shoot quickly between crowd crushes!
Here's a few of the better shots, the black blurry bits in the foreground of
some shots are people's heads! It does pay to be that bit taller at times.
I had some poor lady who was like 4ft standing next to me and whinging all
night about how she was shorter than most of the 12 year olds there and
could see less than them cause she didn't have the energy to be jumping
around like a maniac to see over the heads...! lol.
These two are my favourites:
http://www.tanyamayer.com/shannonnoll/pages/ShannonNoll11.html
http://www.tanyamayer.com/shannonnoll/pages/ShannonNoll09.html
And here are the rest of them....
http://www.tanyamayer.com/shannonnoll/index.html
tan.
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